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This lady was one of the premier bandleaders in the hot jazz scene in Chicago in the 1920’s. She was the house pianist at Paramount records, where she accompanied the best women singers, as well as leading her own sessions with formidable sidemen of the era. She was born Cora Calhoun in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1887. She was well educated and received extensive formal training in college as well. Her early career was in vaudeville where she played piano and performed in variety acts. She led a couple of acts on the T.O.B.A. circuit including her own Blues Serenaders. This band used a carefully varied series of devices based around the blues which lent the music real individuality
Mother of the Blues, The Complete Paramount Recordings, 1923-1928
By Ma Rainey
Label: Black Swan Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Bad Luck Blues; Barrel House Blues; Bessemer Bound Blues; Big Boy Blues; Big Feeling Blues;
Black Cat Hoot Owl
Blues; Black Dust Blues; Black Eye Blues; Blame It on the Blues; Blues Oh Blues; Booze and
Blues; Broken Hearted
Blues; Broken Soul Blues; Cell Bound Blues; Chain Gang Blues; Countin' the Blues; Daddy
Goodbye Blues; Damper
Down Blues; Dead Drunk Blues; Deep Moaning Blues; Don't Fish in My Sea; Down in the
Basement; Farewell Daddy
Blues; Georgia Cake Walk; Goodbye Daddy Blues; Grievin' Hearted Blues; Hellish Rag; Honey
Where You Been So
Long; Ice Bag Papa; Jealous Hearted Blues; Jealous Rider Blues; Jealousy Blues; Jelly Bean
Blues; Last Minute Blues;
Lawd Send Me a Man Blues; Leaving This Morning; Levee Camp Moan; Log Camp Blues; Lost
Wandering Blues; Lucky
Rock Blues; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; Ma Rainey's Mystery Record; Misery Blues; Moonshine
Blues; Mountain Jack
Blues; New Bo-Weavil Blues; Night Time Blues; Oh Papa Blues; Prove It on Me Blues; Rough
and Tumble Blues;
Runaway Blues; Screech Owl Blues; See See Rider Blues; Shave 'Em Dry Blues; Slave to the
Blues; Sleep Talking
Blues; Slow Driving Blues; Southern Blues; Stack O' Lee Blues; Stormy Sea Blues; Sweet Rough
Man; Traveling
Blues; Trust No Man; Tough Luck Blues; Victim of the Blues; Walking Blues; Weepin' Woman
Blues; Wringing and
Twisting Blues; Yonder Come the Blues.
Ma Rainey: Mother of the Blues, The Complete Paramount Recordings, 1923-1928
by C. Michael Bailey
Many music writers and historians consider Gertrude “Ma" Rainey the matriarch of American blues. Beginning her career in the dust of Southern tent shows and minstrel circuits, she became one of the first professional entertainers to bridge the raw, rural folk traditions of the deep south with the theatrical polish of vaudeville. Known for her commanding ...
The High Society New Orleans Jazz Band, Carmen Bradford, Michika Fukumori, Jonathan Karrant, Franck Amsallem Trio & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from The High Society New Orleans Jazz Band, Carmen Bradford, Michika Fukumori, Jonathan Karrant and Franck Amsallem, with birthday shoutouts to Jazz Foremother Lovie Austin, Vi Redd, Marlena Shaw, Emily Remler, Catherine Russell, Kait Dunton and Wesla Whitfield, among others, with remembrances for Joyce Breach and Akiko Tsuruga. Happy listening and ...
Benjamin Boone, Bevan Manson, Julieta Eugenio, Ginetta's Vendetta, Music Soup Organ Trio and Miki Yamanaka
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Benjamin Boone, Bevan Manson, Julieta Eugenio, Ginetta's Vendetta, Music Soup Organ Trio and Miki Yamanaka, with birthday shoutouts to Emily Remler, Lovie Austin (Downhearted Blues), Marlena Shaw, Vi Redd, Margo Guryan, Catherine Russell, Kait Dunton and Jo Harrop, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See ...
Queer Blues: The Hidden Figures Of Early Blues Music
by Ian Patterson
Queer Blues: The Hidden Figures Of Early Blues Music Darryl W. Bullock 352 Pages ISBN: 978-1-9131-7252-7 Omnibus Press 2023 The blues is ripe with legends and myths, not least the oft-touted claim that W.C. Handy was the father of the blues. But as Darryl. W. Bullock tells it, there ...
More Fall Releases Plus Birthday Shoutouts To Lovie Austin, Vi Redd, Emily Remler & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Audrey Ochoa, Shuteen Erdenebaatar, Maddie Vogler, Teri Parker, Brandon Sanders featuring Jazzmeia Horn, vocalists Darden Purcell, plus a single from Samara Joy, with birthday shoutouts to Lovie Austin, Vi Redd, Emily Remler, Bobby Short, Catherine Russell, Kait Dunton, Norma Winstone and Ingrid Laubrock, among others. Thanks for listening and please ...
New Releases From Anat Cohen, Gentiane MG, Birthday Shoutouts To Lovie Austin, Vi Redd & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast presents new releases from vocalist Tracye Eileen, clarinetist Anat Cohen, Canadian pianist Gentiane MG plus a single from vibraphonist/marimbist Patricia Brennan, with birthday shoutouts to saxophonist Vi Redd, pianists Lovie Austin (Downhearted Blues), Kait Dunton, vocalists Catherine Russell, Norma Winstone, Sally Terrell and Rebecca Kilgore, among others. In the second hour, a set of ...
Having A Good Time With Alberta Hunter
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast celebrates the birthday of legendary pianist and songwriter Alberta Hunter, who returned to the NYC clubs after a twenty year nursing career. Also featured are new releases from composer/arranger Jihye Lee, and vocalists Clare Foster, Aubrey Logan, Alyssa Allgood and Veronica Swift. Other birthday shoutouts include Norah Jones, Tessa Souter, Tina May, Aimee Allen ...
Ada Bird Wolfe, Jamieson Trotter: He & Me
by C. Michael Bailey
Ada Bird Wolfe's 2018 debut CD, Birdie (Self Produced), was one of the best recordings released that year. For Wolfe, music has been a lifetime love, even while in school and after, working in business, and writing full time. Wolfe has sojourned from the East to the West Coast, where she finally landed, set down roots ...
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